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"If prisons are to be considered rational institutions, rather than horrible holding pens, then prisoners' rights should be of utmost importance, and their protection the state's strongly held commitment," wrote The Indian Express newspaper in an editorial Tuesday.

According to the country's National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), India had 1,382 jails in 2011 with a total capacity to hold 332,782 inmates.

However, the occupancy rate in those jails was around 112% that year, data posted on the bureau website show.

Last year, Tihar Prison recorded 18 deaths, including two suicides, according to CNN-IBN.

Authorities say Singh was the driver of the bus aboard which several men brutally raped a 23-year-old woman on December 16.